Having the Psychological Advantage During Interviews

I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a story about the interview process and how not all candidates are viewed the same by the interviewer. This is the bias of the human mind. A couple of key points:

1. You are the best candidate if you've followed after a candidate who had a weak interview. 
2. You are automatically interpreted to have 2 extra years of experience simply by being the last interview candidate of the day, but only if all of the other interviews for that day were disappointing.

This is an interesting study and the most helpful part that I found is a theory of the "gambler's fallacy:" people who gamble lose so many times that they think that one time must be a winner, or vice versa: if a movie critic has seen 10 movies for the week and they are all great, they will subconsciously feel that this is not possible and be extra critical on a few of the movies.

Listen to the article, it is interesting and shows that at the end of the day we are all human and understanding human thought is essential for having the advantage in the job world. None of the results of the study are predictable, by the way, so even if you are able to know that these findings are in effect, there is really nothing you can do about it (except be the last interview of the day, because you are at the most risk).

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